Standard Chartered Issues $200 Million Digitally Native Notes via Euroclear

Digitally native notes are issued and recorded on distributed ledger technology from inception, rather than created first in conventional form and later represented digitally. Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D-FMI) brings such international securities into a regulated market environment while retaining links to established issuance, settlement and servicing processes. Standard Chartered’s entry matters because adoption by a Global Systemically Important Bank signals that blockchain-based debt is moving beyond pilot transactions toward mainstream wholesale funding.

Standard Chartered said on Aug. 20, 2026, that it had issued $200 million of three-year floating-rate digitally native notes through Euroclear’s D-FMI, becoming the platform’s first G-SIB and first UK issuer. The notes pay interest quarterly at a floating rate tied to compounded daily SOFR and settled on a T+1 basis. Standard Chartered acted as sole dealer, while Citi serves as trustee and digitally native notes agent; the securities were admitted to the London Stock Exchange’s International Securities Market.